Claim · #6495162
Sciomyzidae · biocontrol · Mollusca
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Sciomyzidae is larval parasitoid of snails, slugs”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 321
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sciomyzidae (marsh flies) larvae are obligate malacophagous predators/parasitoids of mollusks including snails, slugs and fingernail clams; this is a textbook ecological role.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Larval malacophagy in Sciomyzidae is canonical (Knutson & Vala); the parasitoid/predator framing accurately reflects the variable behavior across Sciomyzidae genera.”
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